Clips from Dr Joe's Introductory Lecture of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself. During this video, you will be inspired, while you laugh, and enjoy learnin...
The Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network published the SDG Index 2017 entitled:...
The Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network published the SDG Index 2017 entitled: "Global Responsibilities: International Spillovers in Achieving the Goals". Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, UN Special Advisor and Director of the SDSN, is interviewed during the launch event in New York at the German Mission to the UN.
Robert J.S. "Bob" Ross is Research Professor of Sociology and the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise in...
Robert J.S. "Bob" Ross is Research Professor of Sociology and the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise in Clark University. The son of a teacher and a garment worker and the grandson of garment workers, Ross has cared deeply about workers and their conditions and has been learning and teaching about these matters since 1994. He is Vice-President of the Sweatfree Purchasing consortium, an organization of nineteen cities and states which are working to remove sweatshop labor from the supply chains of their public purchasing of uniforms. The author of Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops, Ross has written extensively on the global apparel industry and labor conditions and workers’ rights in it. His writings on these and other issues have appeared in variety of professional and journalistic sources.
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan E. Rice testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives...
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan E. Rice testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on the topi...
In this video, you will learn how to communicate directly to the person, not an interpreter or personal care...
In this video, you will learn how to communicate directly to the person, not an interpreter or personal care assistant. This 1:17 min video was created by th...
VICE's Ryan Duffy went to Colombia to check out a strange and powerful drug called Scopolamine, also known as "The...
VICE's Ryan Duffy went to Colombia to check out a strange and powerful drug called Scopolamine, also known as "The Devil's Breath." It's a substance so inten...
This final episode in our Investigating International Finance series explores the controversial ways in which global...
This final episode in our Investigating International Finance series explores the controversial ways in which global finance interacts with the developing world. Western financial firms can buy, restructure, and then sell off companies, often leaving them saddled with debt. We also look at 'land grabbing', the widespread selling and leasing of land in Africa to corporations, which can result in governments evicting local people from their land.
This is the fourth in a series of four videos investigating different areas of the international finance system. Each is a short introduction to a major challenge we face if we want to reform global finance and make it work for people and the planet.
The number of people sleeping rough in London has doubled over the past 10 years and the UK is sleepwalking into a...
The number of people sleeping rough in London has doubled over the past 10 years and the UK is sleepwalking into a homelessness crisis, a charity has warned....
